The Head of State reacted to the announcement of the death of the soldier in Guyana. The 35-year-old man was shot to death during an operation to combat illegal gold laundering.
Emmanuel Macron expresses “his great emotion”, reports Elysée this Saturday, after the announcement of the death of a GIGN gendarme during an operation to combat illegal gold laundering.
The Head of State “greets the courage and memory of this non-commissioned officer, who fell under fire, committed since 2009 within the national gendarmerie and who has been working on the GIGN antenna in Cayenne since 2019,” the Presidency of the Republic also indicated in Press release.
The 35-year-old soldier was shot dead. Gold panning, or trafficking in illegally mined gold, is practiced by about 6,000 people in Guyana, according to the local prefecture.
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